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C h a p t e r 2
Managing a Soccer Programs
Remember that the success of a fund-raiser always depends on your planning, your
enthusiasm and your motivation.
Managing Your Budget
Stretching your Soccer budget and minimizing the amount of fund-raising you have to
do are the hallmarks of good financial management.
A Soccer program has three primary expenses:
1. Equipment
2. Transportation
3. Entry fees
How you budget and pay for these items depends on your individual school. Most
schools place transportation and entry fees in budget categories separate from equipment.
Equipment
Equipment for Soccer usually consists of uniforms — jerseys, shorts, warm-up suits,
shoes — as well as balls, cones, goals and nets.
For openers, consider whether the uniforms you intend to purchase will be available
for future reordering. Select a uniform manufacturer that has a consistent design and
color selection if you want to be able to replace and add to your basic uniform inventory
over several years.
Buying from the same manufacturer will let you start a replace-and-repair program for
team uniforms, rather than having to purchase new designs or slightly different colors
every year. It will also save art design and screen charges, which can range from $30 to
$150 with every order. Be sure to find out the Pantone Matching System numbers for
your school colors. Some athletic directors will not pay for school uniforms that are
not produced in your exact school colors.
Numbered uniforms allow you to keep an accurate record of the equipment you issue
to each athlete. Numbers also make it easy for your players to identify their uniforms,
especially warm-ups, from a pile of team uniforms.
Inspect uniforms at the end of each season to see what needs replacing or repairing.
Keep a uniform inventory list so you always know the number of uniforms in each
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